PhD Students

Current Postgraduate Research (PhD) Students

Natalia Cotic
Expected completion 2026

Wentao Hao
Expected completion 2027

Graduated PhD Students

Paul Lascabettes
Mathematical Models for the Discovery of Musical Patterns and Structures, and for Performances Analysis (2023)
24 Nov 2023 : Paul Lascabettes defends thesis at IRCAM Fri 24 November [ VIDEO ]

Daniel Bedoya
Capturing musical prosody through interactive audiovisual annotations (2023)
18 Oct 2023 : Daniel BEDOYA Defends Thesis at IRCAM Wed 18 October [ VIDEO ]

Sebastiàn Ruiz Blais
Neuro-physiological responses in vocalisation: Technologies for affect regulation and social closeness (2022)
3 Nov 2022 : Sebastiàn Ruiz successfully defends thesis on Neuro-physiological responses in Vocalisation 

Changhong Wang
Scattering Transform for Playing Technique Recognition (2021)
10 Jun 2021 : Changhong Wang successfully defends thesis on Scattering Transform for Playing Technique Recognition

Vanessa Pope
That’s What She Said: A computational approach to analysing structure and timing in stand-up comedy (2020)
21 Aug 2020 : Vanessa Pope passes PhD viva on computational analysis of structure and timing in standup comedy

Simin (Cicely) Yang
Understanding Agreement and Disagreement in Listeners’ Perceived Emotion in Live Music Performance (2020)
4 Jun 2020 : Simin Yang passes PhD viva on listeners’ perceived emotion in live music performance

Katerina Kosta
Computational Modeling and Quantitative Analysis of Dynamics in Performed Music (2017)

Luwei Yang
Computational Modeling and Analysis of Vibrato and Portamento in Expressive Music Performance (2016)

Jordan Bennet Louis Smith
Explaining Listener Differences in the Perception of Musical Structure (2014)

Ching-Hua Chuan
Hybrid Methods for Music Analysis and Synthesis: Audio Key Finding and Automatic Style-Specific Accompaniment (2008)

Erdem Ünal
Music Retrieval Systems: Robust Performance Under the Effect of Uncertainty (2008)

Jie Liu
User-Centered Design and Computing in ESP: a Driving Interface for Musical Expression Synthesis (2007)

Arpi Mardirossian
Investigations in Music Similarity: Analysis, Organization, and Visualization Using Tonal Features (2007)